Posted on 05/22/2018 3:59:42 PM PDT by Mount Athos
When it was noted that the carry-on bags of multiple airline passengers traveling from Minneapolis to Somalia contained millions of dollars in cash, on a regular basis, law enforcement was naturally curious to know where the money came from and where it was going. It soon emerged that millions of taxpayer dollars, and possibly much more, had been stolen through a massive scam of Minnesota’s social-services sector, specifically through fraudulent daycare claims. To make matters worse, the money appears to have wound up in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Shabab, the Islamic jihadist group responsible for numerous terrorist outrages.
Starting in the 1990s, the State Department directed thousands of refugees from Somalia’s civil war to Minnesota, which is now home to the largest population of Somalis outside Somalia itself. As the Washington Times noted in 2015, in Minnesota, these refugees “can take advantage of some of America’s most generous welfare and charity programs.” Professor Ahmed Samatar of Macalester College in St. Paul observed, “Minnesota is exceptional in so many ways but it’s the closest thing in the United States to a true social democratic state.” A high-trust, traditionally homogenous community with a deep civil society marked by thrift, industriousness, and openness, Minnesota seemed like the ideal place to locate an indigent Somali population now estimated at 100,000.
Public discussion of the resulting contradictions has been limited, to say the least. Minnesota governor Mark Dayton has sought to stifle public discussion with tired imputations of bigotry and intolerance. Indeed, he advised native Minnesotans with qualms about immigrant resettlement to move out. “If you are that intolerant, if you are that much of a racist or a bigot, then find another state,” he said. “Find a state where the minority population is 1 percent or whatever. It’s not that in Minnesota.” Dayton also made an economic argument that did not exactly fit the case of Third World immigrants who are themselves heavy consumers of welfare benefits. “Our economy cannot expand based on white, B+, Minnesota-born citizens. We don’t have enough,” he said. A trust-fund baby himself, Dayton was engaging in a classic case of projection. It was certainly not an invitation to debate.
A September 2015 report of the House Homeland Security Committee task force on combating terrorist and foreign-fighter travel revealed that Minnesota led all states in contributing foreign fighters to ISIS. Reviewing the public cases of 58 Americans who joined or attempted to join ISIS, the task force found that 26 percent of them came from Minnesota. Somali Minnesotans occasionally appear in the headlines as “Minnesota men” who have taken up terrorist jihad. In 2015, ten such Minnesota men were charged with seeking to join ISIS in Syria; six pleaded guilty, and three were convicted in June 2016 (one is presumed dead in Syria).
Attending the trial of the three who contested the charges against them, I found that these Minnesota men gave the outward appearance of American assimilation, even though—as became apparent in the recordings introduced into evidence—they all hated the United States. They were young, educated, and bilingual. They moved into and out of the workforce at will. The FBI’s Somali informant worked on the tarmac at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, de-icing planes along with one of the convicted co-conspirators. At one time, all three of the men on trial worked at a local UPS facility in a leafy St. Paul suburb, where they enjoyed watching ISIS videos during their breaks.
I found that they were sophisticated users of social-welfare benefits. Two of four Somali-Minnesotans intercepted at JFK airport in New York en route to Syria had used federal financial-aid funds to finance their travel; one of the defendants even financed one of his planned trips to Syria with a $5,000 debit-card withdrawal on his student-loan account. The daycare case also demonstrates savvy insight into the opportunities to take advantage of the quasi-governmental American social-services apparatus. Ten daycare centers are under investigation for fraud, and dozens more are suspected. Search warrants show that each of these daycare centers has received several million dollars in child-care assistance funds. According to public records and government sources, most are owned by Somali immigrants.
The case of Fozia Ali, recently sworn in as a member of the park board of an upscale Twin Cities suburb, is illustrative. Ali’s daycare center in south Minneapolis was suspected of billing the government for more than $1 million of bogus child-care services. According to Special Agent Craig Lisher, the FBI “found records that she was collecting a significant amount of money for a much larger number of children than were actually attending the center.” Ali’s case also had an international component. “We are aware that some of the funds went overseas, what she was cashing out, money from the business,” Lisher noted. He declined to specify the purpose to which the funds were put.
Ali used a phone app to register charges to the Minnesota state government while she stayed at an $800-per-night hotel in Nairobi. She pleaded guilty in March to charges of wire fraud and is serving time in federal prison. But the scam goes well beyond Ali. Though the total loss to the state’s $248 million daycare program remains to be determined, we have a serious case of deceit, obviously. But the real damage, harder to measure, is likely to be to the high-trust values of Minnesota, where newcomers can dupe the natives so easily.
No, the real damage is to the taxpayers. These so called administrators need to be held accountable. This money didn’t come easy, and should be spent responsibly.
Some heads need to roll over this lack of oversight.
Obozo’s sons fleecing the tax payer
None Dare Call It Treason
Nice to know why taxes are so high.
Minnesota may well have the same fate as Sweden.
Look .... all they want is a better life for themselves and their families ..... what’s the problem ?
Mass 3rd world immigration is just another progressive, left, globalist project, funded by massive government debt and printed, unbacked money
“Minnesota may well have the same fate as Sweden.”
Minnesota is Sweden in America..with some Norwegian socialists thrown into the mix.
The entire Kenyanesian Usurpation was treason.
Both parties colluded to violate the Constitution.
Foreigners who have never worked a day of their filthy lives are absconding with millions of our tax dollars, and have been doing so for years. And it's not only in Minnesota, but everywhere that Somalians infect: Minnesota, Maine, Georgia to name a few.
These are muslim invaders, well versed in the hatred of the Koran for non-mulims, and skilled in the moslem art of taqiah deception.
But I don't pay my quarterly taxes....and they are on me...fast.
What is wrong here?
Illegals get every hand out they can...and the gov. just doles it out....
The people that are lying and cheating.....just get what they want...!!!???
Something is messed up....
“Minnesota governor Mark Dayton has sought to stifle public discussion with tired imputations of bigotry and intolerance.”
As is common, the problem begins at the top, although Minnesota voters probably deserve some credit.
Trust me. It’s not just the Muslims. They all come here from hellholes all over the world and sign up for all the freebies.
Bkmk
I remember in 1993 Somalis dragging Americans through their sh*t infested streets, blowing up security forces and stealing food. If someone would tell me that we would import these freeloading , barbaric, third world parasite colonists into our country en mass and allow them to take over American cities and towns, I would say your f-ing nuts. This is f-ing nuts!
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch. They’ve been virtue signalling and calling the South evil racists for 60 years. I hope they choke on it.
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It’s a vicious crime what government has done to parts of America by dumping these people en-mass into one town or another. Should have never happened.
What is interesting to me is that the people who make the decisions to impose these Moslem assholes on Real Americans NEVER have to suffer the consequences of their actions!
If I had my way, every damn one of them would be forced to live in Mogadishu, Minnesota!
Ask the non-Moslems inhabiting ANY city that has been overrun by third world Moslems what they think about allowing these fifth century savages into their city!
I wonder what CAIR would comment?
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